From February 21-24, 26 schools representing two- and four-year schools from Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington D.C., and West Virginia compete in virtual Qualifying Rounds for a chance to advance to the 7th CyberWatch Mid-Atlantic Regional CCDC finals, March 14-17 at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab.

Each team will be given a 3 hour time slot to harden inherited systems, complete various assigned tasks, and keep server services up and running. The top 8 schools will advance to the Mid-Atlantic Regional CCDC finals.

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PaulDotCom Enterprises is proud to offer two of their latest training courses at this year’s CyberWatch Mid-Atlantic CCDC:

• Offensive Countermeasures – Defensive Techniques That Actually Work
• Automating Post-Exploitation with Metasploit

When: March 13-14, 2012
Time: 9:00 AM-5:00 PM EST
Where: The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab – Kossiakoff Center, 11100 Johns Hopkins Road, Laurel, Maryland 20723-6005
Cost: $2,000.00 per student

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“A major corporate network is under attack and a strike team of the best and brightest cyber defenders huddles around a set of laptops to quickly assess the threat. An unknown adversary has disrupted the company’s online ordering system and may have compromised portions of the internal network, including supply chain data. While the full extent of the attack remains unknown, the team snaps into action to beat back the intrusion while maintaining business continuity.

Throughout the spring, scenarios just like this one were played out during a series of Collegiate Cyber Defense Competitions (CCDC) held across the country. Boeing sponsored the two-day simulations that pitted university students against network security professionals, including Boeing cyber engineers, who volunteered their time to play the part of cyber criminal.”

Full story here.

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The team from Anne Arundel Community College, MD has won the 2011 DC3 Digital Forensics Challenge U.S. Community College Division, besting 24 other teams for the top honor.

AACC was one of the original 5 schools to compete in the 1st CyberWatch Mid-Atlantic CCDC in 2006, along with the Community College of Baltimore County (MD), George Mason University (VA), Millersville Univesity (PA), and Towson University (MD). AACC took 2nd place that year and has competed in each MA CCDC since.

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For the 7th year in a row, iSIGHT Partners will power the 7th CyberWatch Mid-Atlantic CCDC.

iSIGHT Partners’ Threatspace solution is the leading technology platform for high end cyber exercises. This proven technology and team have been delivering competitions around the world since 2005.  The ThreatSpace open exercise framework creates a high degree of realism. This realism  combined with unique scoring capability provides an excellent evaluation of real world cyber security skills and technology.  The open framework supports a wide array of target technologies and attack vectors including IPv4 and IPv6, wireless (802.11, RFID, GSM), VoIP and even SCADA.  Over the years the iSIGHT Partners team and technology has delivered exercises for an ever growing array of private and public customers around the world.

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Invitations for the 7th CyberWatch Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (MA CCDC) went out on Friday, October 14, 2011.

The virtual qualifying rounds take place February 6-24, 2012. The face-to-face regional finals, which will be held again this year at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (JHU APL), will be March 15-17, 2012.

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Brad Bowers provides an intriguing look into the 2011 CyberWatch Mid-Atlantic CCDC attack-and-defense competition for information technology students. Think it’s just an opportunity for youngsters to get away from the campus classroom routine for a couple of days, to do a little role-playing and check out some new gadgetry? Think again. This intense competition pits young cyber warriors against experienced hackers who attack from every quarter in an attempt to wrest system control from the defenders.

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The Cyber Foundations competition featured a series of timed quizzes for high school students to test aptitude in the three most important foundational skills of effective cyber security: networking, operating systems, and system administration. Students were provided with tutorials and training materials to review in each of the three subject areas and then participated in a series of three quizzes throughout March and April.

Check out the winners

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The U.S. Cyber Challenge (USCC) is a national coalition of public/private sector entities collaborating to enhance the workforce with the next generation of cyber security professionals through skill development activities, mentoring, and resources, and the facilitation of scholarship, internship and employment opportunities.

The Maryland US Cyber Camps are summer programs designed for high school students in partnership with CyberWatch. Two one-week commuter day camps are scheduled in 2011. Students learn about the field of Cybersecurity and skills needed for this exciting profession. Specific topics covered include:

• Operating Systems
• System Administration
• Networking
• Programming
• Guest speakers
• Site visits
• Cyber defense exercise
• More, more, more

This is an intermediate level camp. Some technical experience is recommended such as: networking, Cisco Academy, and/or Java programming. Four days of activities culminate in a computer based “capture-the-flag” competition.

For more information, see here.

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Company/Organization: National Security Agency (NSA)
Presentation: OPSEC and Social Networking Sites and Safe Social Networking

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